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Final Airbus A318 Operated By A North American Airline Retired 21 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
The Airbus A318 can be thought of as the black sheep of the Airbus family. With a grand total of only 79 airframes built, the A318 program was simply not meant to be. Earlier this month, the final A31...
Video: Helicopter Pilot In Portugal Fills Fire Fighting Bucket At Pool 20 Aug 2013 | 09:54 pm
As we recently saw in Canada, fighting fires from the air is no easy task. One payload, one shot to get the water drop right. But what does an areal firefighter do when they need to reload, and there ...
Budget Carrier Allegiant Air Coming To MacArthur, Returns To Stewart 20 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
Do you prefer your New York City airports to actually be about 50 miles outside of New York City? If so, we have some good news for you! Ultra low cost carrier Allegiant Air is planning a comeback to ...
Pictures: Nose Gear Of United Boeing 767-300 Collapsed At Gate at IAH 16 Aug 2013 | 08:05 pm
In the pre-dawn hours at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport airport, the nose gear of a United Boeing 767-300 apparently failed, dropping the nose of the aircraft into the ground. The airc...
2013 Greenwood Lake Airshow This Weekend 16 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
For the 5th straight year Greenwood Lake will play host to their hometown airshow this weekend August 16-18. “To help compensate for recent sequestration we worked to make this years show a true 3 day...
Latest 787 Glitch: What Happens When The Wrong Extinguisher Is Fired? 15 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
On Wednesday, reports started to trickle in that The Boeing 787 Dreamliner had yet another glitch that airlines needed to sort out. No, it was not related to the lithium-ion batteries again, but somet...
UPS Airbus A300 Crashes On Approach To Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Int’l 14 Aug 2013 | 04:18 pm
UPDATE- 8/14/13 5:35pm On Wednesday afternoon, the National Transportation Safety Board held their first press conference detailing their investigation into the crash of the UPS A300. “From the initia...
Justice Dept. Files Suit Against American Airlines, US Airways Merger 13 Aug 2013 | 07:44 pm
On Tuesday morning, The United States Department of Justice, along with six states and the District of Colombia, filed a civil antitrust suit challenging the latest airline merger, between US Airways ...
Cathay Pacific Expanding NYC Service With Newark Flights 13 Aug 2013 | 06:13 pm
Cathay Pacific is no stranger to the New York City area, with four daily flights out of JFK direct to Hong Kong and a robust cargo operation using Boeing 747-8Fs. For those of you that need to get to ...
Airline Websites: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly 12 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
“Web 2.0 describes web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier web sites.” This is the definition of Web 2.0 according to Wikipedia. While there is no official definition of Web 2...
